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...trade program in history. He has taken an extremely tough line on the necessity of eliminating discrimination against U.S. exports. His Tokyo speech in October 1959 was the first public U.S. threat of drastic steps to come if the thriving free-world nations did not "move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions...
...Convertible. Six years ago, seeking to shake off the shadow, Tony plotted to get rid of his peerage in advance. His blonde, U.S.-born wife Caroline cheerfully agreed to forgo the name, state and dignity of a viscountess. "Titles belong in fairy tales," said she. Tony also had the support of his father, a distinguished colonial administrator and longtime M.P. who had reluctantly accepted his peerage only to help swell Labor's strength in the House of Lords. (The life peerage, which does not pass on to descendants, had not yet been created.) Between them, Tony and his father...
...commented that during his visit to the USSR, just after the U-2 incident, many Russians assured him that they had no hostile images of the US: that indeed they objected to Khruschchev's demolition of the summit. From this evidence professor Hughes concluded that, if we could only rid our polley makers and ourselves of our own hostile image of the USSR, we would have made a major step toward world peace. I wish to protest against the frequent and facile mis-use of the word "image" in discussion of foreign policy, of which I believe professor Hughee...
...move. "Recent commit tee discussions have taken the form rather of open war than of constructive exchanges," he explained later. "In a democracy, it is necessary to have the self-restraint to abide by a majority decision." With his control of top army commands, Gursel managed to get rid of the 14 relatively junior officers without resistance-though he prudently disconnected their home telephones before sending the police with the news. To keep them out of trouble, the 14 will be scattered abroad as "advisers" to Turkish embassies...
...sale of the Times continues the cutback of the Hearst chain since control of the empire passed to Hearst Corporation President Richard Berlin after the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. More interested in profits than press power, Berlin got rid of the Chicago American and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. Says one Hearst executive: "For years our strong papers-Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, Los Angeles-have been drained by losing operations. In the last two years we have decided on concentrating our resources in those...